There are all kinds of majors that don’t fit the mold of a “college education.” But most kids go to college to get the slip of paper that tells employers, “I’m smarter than dirt.”

Maybe I’m a little biased, since I was a Communications grad myself. I had the brains to do all kinds of things, but when I entered college I wanted to be the next Jane Pauley. So I went to a small private college where I could get my hands on real video equipment as a freshman or sophomore.

The current issue of The American magazine has a great cover story on college — how it’s become very expensive vocational ed for most people, and how college as we know it is rapidly becoming obsolete.

At least Palin got to use her journalism training. I ended up not using much of mine, like a lot of college grads. (Sheesh, my brother is 32 and he’s still bouncing around from school to school.) Palin became a sportscaster after U Idaho. She doesn’t seem to have spent her entire life aiming for high office, which is part of her appeal for many voters.

suspicious???

Don’t let your prejudice show much. I went to a state college where I played basketball for 2 years – left and returned as a part time commuter student – worked nites and went part time days. While I can honestly say I didn’t really enjoy college I did earn a degree but had little or no interaction with the college community and have no attachment whatsoever to the school. It’s been at least 5 years since I’ve seen or heard from anyone there. Obviously not everyone has the same college experience.

“It’s not only considered dull,” he says, “there’s an intellectual disdain for people who go into industrial America. It’s as if they can’t make it in these other parts of the economy.”

Something is very strange when a 50-year-old man finds there is more interest in his college years than in his present vast managerial responsibilities.

And, to his credit, he won’t have a dime of student loan debt.

Students who run through college in four uninterrupted years are far more the outlier than the norm nowadays.

Perhaps she was trying to find a college that was up to meeting her intellectual standards. They are hard to find nowadays, you know.

Joycem continued, “Meanwhile, after the Newsweek cover that just came out, this liberal Democrat (from rural roots) who happens to live in a big city and who has spent more than a wee bit of time handling guns as a hunter, has to say that Palin’s hunting creds are more than a wee bit suspicious to me.”

Yes, this certainly merits an investigation. Because if she doesn’t have “hunting creds,” this clearly disqualifies her for the office of Vice President. Let’s hope that the MSM media investigates this right away. Oh, that investigation will have to wait? They’re still busy trying to prove that she didn’t wash her hands after using the bathroom.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/separating-palin-fact-from-palin-fiction